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Trump: dit was onze laatste kans om Iraans kernwapen te voorkomen

WASHINGTON (ANP) - Volgens de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump was afgelopen weekend "de laatste goede kans" om Iran aan te vallen en te voorkomen dat het land een kernwapen zou ontwikkelen. Hij stelde in een korte update over Iran dat de operatie "ver voor op schema" ligt.

Trump sprak bij een ceremonie voor veteranen die een hoge onderscheiding kregen, maar nam ook kort de tijd om het over de oorlog in Iran te hebben. Hij somde nog eens de doelen op van luchtaanvallen in Iran: het vernietigen van Irans raketprogramma en de marine en voorkomen dat het land een kernwapen kan krijgen.

De president zei eerder dat hij dacht dat de oorlog vier tot vijf weken kon duren. Hoewel de operatie volgens hem voorloopt op schema, verklaarde hij dat de Amerikanen ook in staat zijn om langer door te gaan met de aanvallen op Iran.

Vorige zomer voerden de VS en Israël ook al aanvallen uit op Irans nucleaire faciliteiten. Trump beweerde toen dat Irans kernprogramma daardoor "decennia" was teruggeworpen.


Advocaten mogen weer met laptop en telefoon gevangenis bezoeken

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Advocaten mogen weer een laptop en een mobiele telefoon meenemen als ze cliënten in de gevangenis opzoeken. Dat meldt de Nederlandse Orde van Advocaten (NOvA) na overleg met de Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen (DJI). Het nieuwe toegangsbeleid treedt naar verwachting na de zomer in werking.

Vorig jaar zomer kondigde DJI aan het toegangsbeleid in gevangenissen aan te scherpen. Het verbieden van laptops en telefoons zou volgens DJI voortgezet crimineel handelen en smokkelwaar in gevangenissen moeten tegengaan. De advocatenorde noemde dit onwerkbaar.

Advocaten hebben een laptop of tablet nodig om het digitale dossier met hun cliënten te kunnen bespreken. Hun mobiele telefoon gebruiken ze om in te kunnen loggen op de systemen.

Het toegangsbeleid in de Extra Beveiligde Inrichting (EBI) in Vught blijft onveranderd. Daar mogen advocaten alleen gebruikmaken van DJI-laptops in combinatie met een usb-stick. DJI ziet volgens NOvA af van het voornemen om dit strenge toegangsbeleid ook door te voeren bij de vier Afdelingen Intensief Toezicht (AIT).


ABN AMRO mag NIBC overnemen, zegt toezichthouder ACM

DEN HAAG (ANP) - ABN AMRO mag zijn kleinere branchegenoot NIBC Bank overnemen, heeft de Autoriteit Consument & Markt (ACM) besloten. Volgens de mededingingswaakhond zijn er geen aanwijzingen dat deze deal de concurrentie in het Nederlandse bankenlandschap beperkt.

Het gaat om een van de grootste overnames in jaren in de Nederlandse bankensector. De geschatte overnameprijs bedraagt zo'n 960 miljoen euro.

De ACM kwam nog geen twee jaar geleden met een rapport dat er te weinig concurrentie zou zijn tussen banken in Nederland. Volgens de ACM was dat een belangrijke oorzaak van de lage spaarrente voor consumenten. De grootbanken zouden onvoldoende concurrentiedruk voelen om hun spaarrente te verhogen.

Nu slokt zo'n grootbank een andere bank op. De ACM stelt echter dat NIBC maar een relatief kleine speler is, die bedrijfsfinancieringen verstrekt en hypotheek- en spaarproducten aanbiedt aan consumenten. Dat betekent dat het marktaandeel van grootbank ABN AMRO na de overname op al deze markten maar beperkt toeneemt, aldus de toezichthouder.


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Pressure on Carney to address Indian interference allegations after Modi meeting

Canadian prime minister and Indian prime minister mostly discussed trade during Carney’s visit to India

Mark Carney is under mounting pressure to address whether he believes Indian interference in Canada remains a threat after he met with Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, whose government is accused of orchestrating the killing a Canadian citizen.

“We are one family,” the Canadian prime minister said from New Delhi on Monday, capping a four day trade-focused trip meant reset relations with the world’s most populous nation.

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Hoppers review – fun Pixar flick about a teen trying to talk to the animals and save them from an evil developer

Sprightly animation about a student’s attempt to stop the destruction of a woodland leans into Disney’s love of anthropomorphism and riffs amusingly on Avatar

Writer-director Daniel Chong brings us a witty, sprightly family animation, co-produced by Pixar veteran Pete Docter and co-written by Jesse Andrews, who may conceivably have supplied quite a bit of the punching-up and the funny incidental lines. In its modest, insouciant way, it is about protecting the environment, and riffs amusingly on films such as Avatar (there’s some amusing preemptive material about it not being like Avatar, but it is, especially at the end) as well as Inception, The Lion King and Dr Dolittle. It’s also about Disney anthropomorphism generally: the great mystery of what it must be like to be an animal and the human yearning to communicate and empathise with them.

Mabel, voiced by Piper Curda, is a teenager who lives with her grandma (the absence of her mom is slightly skated over) and learns from this wise older person the importance of loving nature, particularly the peaceful woodland glade near their house – and the associated importance of acceptance and forgiveness for people that you maybe don’t get along with. But when the evil Mayor Jerry (voiced by Jon Hamm) says he intends to destroy this glade to make way for a freeway, Mabel realises that the only way to stop him legally is to repopulate the glade with the beavers and other animals who have mysteriously vanished.

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Old Game, New Clothes

Old Game, New Clothes

ZigNum

Back in university in 2003 we had to do a group project. I don't remember which course it was, but the assignment was pretty open. Basically as long as you coded something, you passed.

I had just switched from my trusty Palm Tungsten E2 PDA to a Linux based Sharp Zaurus and I was missing a little puzzle game I enjoyed playing on the Palm. So my friend Frank and I decided to implement our own version.

The Zaurus used QT as the graphics framework so we made it in C++ and QT. It was a fun project and it not only worked on the Zaurus but also on desktop. Frank even managed to compile it for Windows.

The time of PDAs was soon over and the age of the smartphone had begun. From time to time I thought about creating an Android app of that game. Unfortunately I had lost the original source code, so I asked Frank if he still had it and luckily he found it on an old disk.

Good thing he sent the code to my gmail account where it got archived forever. Because that was back in 2011 and I never came around to actually make that app.

But recently I remembered. And since we're living in the future (a much shittier version of the future than I had hoped, but the future nonetheless) porting code is relatively simple now.

So I spent an afternoon with Claude Code, having it analyze the original code, come up with some initial requirements and a final implementation plan. Then I let it run and it basically one-shot a working implementation :-O.

There are many valid criticisms on LLMs and their billionaire owners. But that LLMs don't work isn't one of them…

I iterated a bit on the implementation and now have a modern version of the old game and it even includes a network mode.

The game uses modern ES6 JavaScript modules and web components, the networking is based on WebRTC (using PeerJS), it has an automatic dark mode, you can install it as an offline app thanks to PWA technology and does not even need a build system. Another tiny part of the future that doesn't suck.

If you want to give it a try, here you go: ZigNum. I find the computer quite difficult to beat – despite the rather naive “AI” approach we picked back in 2003. But maybe I'm just rusty.

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The first of these at least has been doing the rounds on the various short-form sites. We start with Sam Kriss (I think the most recent previously) on the newest kind of person pursued by the app sector (ungated): The future will belong to people with a very specific combination of personality traits and psychosexual neuroses. An AI might be able to code faster than you, but there is one advantage that humans still have. It's called agency, or being highly agentic. The highly agentic are people who just do things. They don't timidly wait for permission or consensus; they drive like bulldozers through whatever's in their way. When they see something that could be changed in the world, they don't write a lengthy critique—they change it. AIs are not capable of accessing whatever unpleasant childhood experience it is that gives you this hunger. Agency is now the most valuable commodity in Silicon Valley. In tech interviews, it's common for candidates to be asked whether they're "mimetic" or "agentic." You do not want to say mimetic. Once, San Francisco drew in runaway children, artists, and freaks; today it's an enormous magnet for highly agentic young men. I set out to meet them. The piece deals in good part (though not exclusively) with Roy Lee, the kid who told New York Mag (previously) he was proud to have cheated his way into, and out of, Columbia, where his only goal was to find a startup partner (he did). And then we have Maddy Crowell on the folks who are going to reindustrialize America with high-tech AI-powered factories (ungated) (the joke being that they won't and they'll be making drones): The techno-industrialists have a different plan to save America. As they see it, what we need is advanced manufacturing. For too long, they say, tech engineers have been fooling around with intangible things: software, blockchain, crypto, AI. Meanwhile, China, the world's manufacturing powerhouse, is churning out roughly eighty-five thousand cars a day; the United States can scarcely produce a third of that number. Silicon Valley is bloated with startups, but too few of their products are concrete. The techno-industrialists believe that America needs to apply modern computing capabilities to industrial production. They believe that technology has drifted too far into the invisible realm of bits or into the digital cloud. They are tired of the coastal ethos of "tech for tech's sake." And they've attracted some very powerful backers in the newly allied worlds of tech and American politics, among them the vice president and the secretary of defense. "The West once held its own destiny in a firm grip," reads the New Industrial Corporation's mission statement. "We can all feel it. A supercycle is groaning to a halt. . . . The known world order is becoming disordered. The 'end of history' is ending."

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